I also have asked myself why they measure 'nuclear' blasts in terms of TNT tonnage (of whatever flavour). They 'know' the effect of TNT blasts but not those of a 'nuclear' blast but need to sound impressive?

I rather liked this explanation as to why they measure explosion in tons of TNT.

Given the strange nature of measuring anything, and I am so mathematically challenged with notions of tons/tonnes/jewels and their conversions I am still unable to equate the what = what and why.

Would anyone like to comment?

Cool research. I will have to take more time to do my own supercilious "checking" but at first glance, it's a great point and something we should definitely think about. I hope you don't mind I corrected one typo in your post (removed a duplicate chunk of text). You gave me pause to thought; simplicity can be moving.

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IDy-0CJbEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IDy-0CJbE“A timely and powerful documentary presenting the danger posed to the free world by a nuclear Iran. The film exposes the radical Islamic ideology guiding Iran's leaders, and the destruction it causes.”

00:03 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

The Iranian people today are the owners of nuclear technology.

Ah-tom Akbar!

Those who wish to speak to our people should know with whom they are speaking.

Agreed! The problem is, Mahmoud, you and your filthy unwashed cohorts/puppet masters have (with the aid of mass media) successfully convinced the international community that you reflect the sentiments of Iranians. You most certainly don't and you know it.

If they have not realized this by now they will soon.

From your lips to Allah’s ears!

But by then it will be too late.

Too late for you and your butt buddies you Pisa $chitt! Button up your shirt, slap on a tie and (for the love of God) lose the tacky Members Only jacket you dirty no-class bum.

A spectacular explosion! Nevertheless, there is a seemingly weird jump at the time of the main explosion [not the impact of the alleged plane itself] and i wonder if a 'shock-wave' would knock the camera/cameraman at that very instance even though immediately afterwards he is centred back on the the ship/or at least where it once was?

An Iranian scientist who provided the US with information about the country's nuclear programme has been hanged for treason, the government has confirmed. Shahram Amiri was executed for giving "vital information to the enemy", a judiciary spokesman said.

Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the US, where he claimed to have been abducted and interrogated by the CIA. He subsequently returned to Iran and was given a long prison sentence.

News of his execution emerged on Saturday, when Amiri's mother said the body had been handed over with rope marks around his neck. [ ]

On Sunday a spokesman for Iranian judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, told reporters: "Through his connection with the United States, Amiri gave vital information about the country to the enemy,"http://www.bbc.com/news/36998747

Expecting some interesting / insightful comments from our very own "Iranian correspondent" ICfreely.

I’m humbled by your generosity, my Liege, but I must refuse the title you’ve bestowed upon me. I find it unbecoming. Might I suggest “Senior Iranologist”? Or perhaps “Iran’s de facto Ambassador to CluesForum”?

As for the senseless ‘slaying’ of yet another Iranian atomic ‘genius’, what can one say?

I’d like to think that I speak for all my fellow Iranians when I say today,

Je ne suis pas $hahram Amiri!

Early on, the obvious culprit seemed to be Israel. But then the Jerusalem Post assured us…

Sister of slain scientist says Iran killed him because he would not agree to help weaponize peaceful nuclear activities.

At least five Iranian scientists were murdered, most of them by bombs planted on their cars as they drove to work in the morning. Remarkably, the Israeli assassins were never caught - obviously having long-established safe houses inside Iran - although several Iranians who may have helped the Mossad were arrested and executed.

I wish to put into the public record of Clues Forum a conversation I had with an older Japanese woman who survived the Hiroshima 'Nuclear Bomb' blast.

I met this woman at a high school graduation party my husband and I went to last year. The wonderful young man who had just graduated high school is half Japanese and half Syrian. The father is Syrian, college professor, and is the source of much of my Syrian info, hot off the press. The mother, Marlene, was born and grew up in the U.S. and both her parents were born in Japan. Marlene was very excited to introduce me to her mother and grandmother who were in attendance for the graduation party. I feel so very fortunate to have been able to discuss such an important topic with an actual Hiroshima survivor and felt that this information needed to be put into the record.

(The Japanese Grandmother did not elaborate much in our conversation so I did a lot of prompting.)

Marlene: My grandmother survived the nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima. K: Oh my goodness! Japanese Grandmother: (Nodding in agreement)K: Did you live in Hiroshima at the time?Japanese Grandmother: Yes, I was a little girl. I lived with my parents in our house.K: How were you able to survive the bomb?Japanese Grandmother: We heard the air raid sirens so we did what we normally do, we started marching up into the hills, the whole city. We all marched up into the hills, like always. K: You marched up into the hills to get away from any bombing?Japanese Grandmother: That is where the shelter was. K: The city was empty when the bomb dropped?Japanese Grandmother: Yes. We were all in the shelterK: I am so sorry. That must have been so terrible. You must have seen horrible things.Japanese Grandmother: No, not really. We were in the shelter when the bomb hit. But I was a little girl. My parents were very upset. I didn't understand at the time what was going on.K: Did you see the city after the bomb hit?Japanese Grandmother: No, we couldn't see the city from where the shelter was located, it was up in the hills.K: I am so sorry, all your homes were destroyed. Did you stay in the shelter long?Japanese Grandmother: Some stayed the night, some left to relatives houses right away. While we were waiting in the shelter, we were told we couldn't go home any more so people started making plans to live other places.K: Where did everyone go?Japanese Grandmother: Mostly to other relatives houses living in other cities. That is what we did. We went to live with my aunt. We had to walk there. That is why we spent the night, she lives far away so we needed our rest. In the early morning we got up and started walking to my aunts house. They gave us food and water to take with us.K: How long did it take you all to get to your aunts house?Japanese Grandmother: Three days. We mostly walked but also took buses if we could find one.K: How was that journey?Japanese Grandmother: Fine. That is where I have most of my childhood memories of living in Japan. K: And you lived there for a while?Japanese Grandmother: About 3 years later we moved to america. My father didn't want to start a new life in Japan. He wanted to come to america so we could start our new life here.

Kham wrote:I wish to put into the public record of Clues Forum a conversation I had with an older Japanese woman who survived the Hiroshima 'Nuclear Bomb' blast.

Thanks for this very precious 'firsthand' testimony, dear Kham. I choose to believe her testimony to be a legitimate account for a number of reasons - and not only because I have met you personally - but also because I have no reason to believe that this particular Japanese woman is a liar - nor that she's making up her story out of thin air. Her account of having been evacuated from the city of Hiroshima BEFORE the air raid started is absolutely priceless - and flies straight in the face of one FUNDAMENTAL HISTORICAL LIE, that is...

THAT THE HIROSHIMA AIR RAID WAS A SURPRISE ATTACK !

"The first nuclear bomb detonation in July 1945 and the surprise attacks on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of that year ignited a global debate about the role, the morality, and the control of nuclear weapons that continues to this day."https://www.armscontrol.org/pressroom/realitycheck

Of course, if an EVACUATION took place before the air raid - the whole myth of the "surprise A-bombing of Hiroshima" falls apart. This woman's account (of being evacuated towards the hills BEFORE the air raid) utterly destroys - all by itself - the official tale of the "super-secret /surprise WW2 atomic-bombings".

On the other hand, practically ALL of the "Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors" that I have ever read or listened to (via the press / and internet) have turned out to be media or military assets. That's right, I have very good reasons to believe that most - if not all - people working for the media or the military have been trained to LIE FOR A LIVING, since both of those "institutions" (the media & the military) are founded on gross and systematically reiterated deceptions & lies - and are almost solely dedicated at diffusing the same to the general public.

"Testimony" of CHISAKO TAKEOKA, at the time a 17-year-old "making torpedoes at a military factory" :

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ah59f_MoJ8

"Testimony" of SETSUKO THURLOW, at the time a 13-year-old who claims that she was, on that very day, at the Army Headquarters" :(Cluesforum readers may also recall Setsuko as claiming that she saw "a guy walking out of the bombed city holding his eyeballs in his hands"...)

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cre8SDTZP4s

"Testimony" of AIKO KORI, at the time a 17-year-old girl who claims that she had been sent to Nagasaki to work in an arms factory :

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-dQook-DA

That's right folks: THESE are the sort of "women survivors of Hiroshima & Nagasaki" who keep feeding the myth - ALL of them with a military background.

See? I'm not suggesting that all of these women are "fake" - in any form or manner. All I'm saying is that they stink of military propaganda assets.

There were no atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. More likely, they were just firebombed (much like countless other Japanese cities) by American B-29 airplanes. Well, that's what we are told anyway - yet I find it quite hard to believe that those B-29 attacks never happened!

The name of the Japanese Grandmother who lived through the "Atomic Bomb" blast of Hiroshima by going with the rest of her town to the air raid shelters, is safely tucked away, to ensure it's safety against being lost to time. And I am also friends with her grand daughter on Facebook.